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Given his equal aptitude for the absurd and the illuminating, Brammer has become one of the internet’s most distinctive voices.

Lgbtq youth find more acceptance online as at home. they turn to the internet to seek advice. our next guest john paul grammar describes the work as quote the mexican dear abby for people all over the world. he is also the author of the new book "hola papi." i think you win the award for most evocative book title. congratulations. tell me why write this now? >> thank you. yes. i think that's what i was going for, a title that jumped out at you and growing up in rural oklahoma i didn't have a lot of community. i write that not only was my family the only mexicans but some of the other people ar...

I think when we deprive experience, not only are we hurting the lgbtq youth from being able to see themselves in a book, but others from being able to put themselves none of those people's shoes and say, oh, this is what it's like. >> i really like that perspective, especially as i thought about that question a lot. back to your book, there's a lot of advice in there. what's the one thing you want young people to take away? >> i just want young people to know, especially trans youth that there's nothing wrong with you. it's a really tough world that we're living in right now. there's a lot of ...

What if Dear Abby was on Grindr? J.P. Brammer on his new memoir-in-advice-columns.

Print When John Paul Brammer started “Hola Papi!” in 2017 for INTO, a digital magazine launched by gay dating app Grindr, he didn’t think it would get much audience response. Since then, Brammer’s advice column, which he describes as a “Queer Latino ‘Dear Abby’ huffing poppers” and now lives on Substack, has become required reading for many members of the Latinx and LGBTQ communities — this column in which he responds to a woman afraid that she’ll never find love was one of my favorite reads of 2020. It’s not hard to see why. His writing is incredibly funny, kind and gra...